Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-23
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

Secretary Bayard says there Is no ground
upon which to ask for the extradition of Nc
Garigle.
Coal arbitration worked satisfactorily at
Pottsville, Pa, and about $1,000 men were
prevented from striking.
A negro cook named Joe Dixon, employed
at the Hotel Beaumont, Outray, Col, had a
fancied grievance against Miss Alice Gray, a
waitress, and shot her four times. a mob
went to the jail to lynch the negro They
captured the guard but failed to gain an en-
trance. They then saturated the building
with oil, and set fire to it. The fire depart
ment, in the attempt to extinguish the flames,
drowned the negro, whose body was roasted
in the burning building. The wounded girl
Is not expected to recover
The Volunteer won the trial race with the
NJ iyflower, and has been selected to defend
tn Americas cup by the New York Yacht
Club committee.
E. B. Coolidge, Calvert county (Md) far
mer, walked into his wife's bedroom, the other
evening, where his wife and her sister were
reading. He had a gun in his hand and told
his wife that he was going TO shoot her. She
sprang to her feet and took the gun from him,
and her sister Miss Turner, ran out Of the
room for help. Before she had got to the
front door she heard two shots Coolidge
had drawn his revolver and shot his wife
through the breast, causing instant death.
To make sure OF his work he opened razor,
and cut her throat He then started down
stairs to find Miss Turner. Not finding her,
he went into his children's room and asked
them to come to their mothers room and see
him die. The children were afraid to go, and
Coolidge returned alone and cut his throat,
falling dead by his wife's side.
The printed forms Of the petition to Gov.
Oglesby, appealing for a Communication of
sentence for the condemned Anarchists have
been gotten out, and are now being forward
ed to all parts Of the country. The petition
was drawn up by Capt. Black. 1t reads as
follows:
ITO His Excellency, Richard J. Oglesby,
Governor of the State of Illinois, The un-
dersigned, believing that in any case involv-
ing life, humanity and the state are better
| served by mercy than by the rigorous execu-
ton of a sentence tho justice of which is
questioned by many Of our people, respect
fully, but urgently, bespeak the exercise of
eeeney ey''qv' IN behaf 1Sn'n August d souEs Spies
Michael Schawb, Oscar Neebe, Albert
R. Parsons Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer,
Louis Lingg and George Engel, being per-
suaded that such action on your part will
couduce to the peace of the state"
While workmen were repairing the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad bridge spanning the
Ohio river at Bellaire, o., an engine backed
upon them, knocking Edward Duffy, the
instantly killing him, and running over Pat
rick Barrett and J. Harding, horribly mang.
| ling both. Barrett died shortly after. Har3-
| ing cannot recover. Duffy and Barrett were
married, and leave families. The engineer
claims he did not see the mon on account OF
( the engine being run backward.
One of the bloodiest murders on record has
| lately trauspired in Patual county, Ga.
| Mingo Parks jet-blaok African, objected
to the attention Of a mulatto young man to-
wards his daughter. The girl, however, had
| frequent meetings with her lover and en-
| couraged his passion. The mulatto was lately
missed. Search was made and his body
found at the bottom Of the Ohoopie river,
weighted with q heavy bar Of iron. Parks
has admitted the deed, declaring that "it
served him right
Henry Riedel murdered his wife and child
at Wilmington, Del, and att mpted to kill
himself
The reception of General Manager FlagleI
of the National Tube Works Company of
| AIcKeesport Pa, by the employees on his re-
turn from Europe, was grand affair.
A Washington special to the n. Y. Evening
Post says: Seen Nathaniel P Banks, who
| has retained his Office as United States Mar
shall in Massachusetts through all the era of
| political changes in tkat state, is now in dan
| ger of losing it if current report is to be
trusted, owing to a confusion of some sort
which has occurred in his accounts No re-
Election is cast upon his integrity, but the ac-
counts of a marshal's office are complex, the
rules of red tape in Washington are necessa-
rily strict, and the general is not 50 clever a
mathematician as he Is an orator. Hence the
disagreeable situation in which he is placed" "
Richard Brenner shiftlcss German, who,
while in idleness, had been given food and
| shelter by Frank Fdel and his wife Elizabeth,
| ot thoi,- hpyoa in lhilaIalnbio cbp nj mud
killed Mrs Edel, and then committed suicide
by shooting himself through the heart in the
house of his benefactors. The cause Of tho
tragedy Is not known.